Patent law is built upon a fundamental premise: only significant inventions receive patent
protection while minor improvements remain in the public domain. This premise is …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted thousands of patents for
inventions whose purpose is to facilitate the sexual pleasure of their users. These" pleasure …

The dramatic reform that upended patent law a decade ago has never fully come to grips
with a defect at the heart of its design. When the 2011 America Invents Act (AIA) took effect …

A hallmark of this; pe of behavior is securing Iage patent holdings to create competiive
advantages associated with the siZe of the portfoio, regardless of the value of the underlying …

The current metric for examiner prosecution activity is allowance rate, which is calculated by
dividing the total number of allowances by the sum of the allowances and abandonments …

Just as the antitrust system seeks to penalize anticompetitive conduct while leaving
procompetitive conduct alone, the patent system seeks to deny patents to inventions that are …

This Article unravels a troubling paradox in the ecosystem of innovation. Interdisciplinarity is
widely recognized as a source of valuable innovation and a trigger for technological …

The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial,
setting became overtly substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to …

Last summer, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an unusual sua sponte
order. An appeal had come from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, a tribunal within the …

Patents are ubiquitous in contemporary life. Practically everything we use incorporates one
or more patented inventions, and recent years have witnessed epic disputes over such …